Adiantum hispidulum Large Shrubs Named the Perennial Plant of

Named the Perennial Plant of the Year in 2004

Of all the silverbells

Culturally

gold-centered daisies

white-fruited

Adiantum hispidulum Large Shrubs Named the Perennial Plant ofMaidenhairs take their English name from their stems, those fine black wiry stalks like strands of dark hair, and their Latin name from a quieter trick. Adiantum comes from the Greek adiantos, the unwetted one, because water will not cling to the fronds. Hold a maidenhair under a running tap and the frond comes out dry, the droplets beading and rolling off a surface built to refuse them. That is the sort of small marvel ferns keep to themselves until